On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Stefan de Konink <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefan@konink.de">stefan@konink.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
And if Google offers OSM in GoogleEarth and<br>
maps you are actually benefiting from several things that you cannot get<br>
now:<br>
<br>
- - Massive adoption, visibility to the general public<br>
- - Hosting, no more slow world wide tile servers<br>
- - And most likely if this `evil' company was involved the 'do trace'<br>
photos<br></blockquote><div><br>There's nothing stopping them from putting the tile servers behind a restrictive TOS, requiring a key to use the API, and limiting the number of accesses per key, is there?<br></div></div>